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Show I CUT HIS THROAT . WITH CASE KNIFE. M ' William Wren Takes the Suicide Route to the Other Side. H WOUNDED AND DYING OH DESERT. H "The (lliastly Find that was Hade B Last Sunday flomlng by two B Cedar Boys. H Last MoAiLiy Sher. Frn v1 uml AiU,v' M ey Ryan were summon.!'1 lo Modna M to investigate tlio case of n m? ' ti. It was alleged had commltcil suicide . H' -or n cur that plnce the dny previous. H vriio gentlemen lost no tlmu in nnuwer H tng tlio call, nud upon their arrival H were confronted by tlio following situ- B ation. They found the body o( a man H lying there who had died some time B- Monday forenoon, nnd who lnul been H brought to Modena by Samuel ltaiter H,. and Fran Thorley, two voting men of H our city; who were out In that part of H the county hording sheep. The young H men had explained to the nuthorlties H nt Modena that on Sunday inoruing fl- Bauer noticed ho mo strange creature H wallowing about in the short brush nt fl a distance from his camp, It was too fl far away for him to make, bure as to fl what it was, and as Thorley, who. was B camped not far away had field glasses, H he wont to his camp to got bein to try H" to discover the nature of the strange H apparition. By the aid of tlio glasses fl they could sea that it was a man that BBBV appeared to lie in distress of somu sort, ! i and to lie partly walking- and partly Hv crawling. They nt once made their way, H to him and found he- was snfferituer R- ' i""- tfeim a" t b'rrttite "wound hi tlio Attffii. BBVA, " Clotter -inspection showed them that tho BaMfl windpipe was severed and that ho was BAmJ breathing through the wound. He wns BaVft unable 10 walk, but otherwise seemed llfl to bo in possession of all his faculties BaMfl' of mind. When asked who inflicted BAmJ the wound, lie pointed to himself, ex- IIJ plaining by means of signs that ho hail lla, lono it last night with an old case BBhJ knife. As he had lost a great quantity BaVa ot blood it wns not n difllcult matter to BBmJ follow tho course, lie had taken in Ills BBBfl rambliugs since the wound was Inllic- laMfl ted, and at no great distance they BBhJ found an old case knlfo with the point BBhS- broken oil and seemed to have been BBVa -recently sharpened on some rough HAmJ substance. The young men secured HBmA a team ns soon ns possible and took HSBfl -the suffer to Modena, distant about HaVfl six or seven miles from the place where H they found him. When the party rea H -olied Modena Mr. Thomas A. Flood of H .Fay was Immediately called by "Phono" " ' .and deputy sheriff Ovorholt of Stateline fl was sent for. In the meantime, in an- H -swer to the question "What is your H name," the wounded man wroto on a H plcaco of paper "William Wren." Im- H mediately on liis arrival Dr Flood ad- H .ministered an anesthetic and dressed the H wound applying suitable bandages and H leaving liim in a semi conscious condi- H tlon, but apparently rest full. No state- H' merit was made by thiHinfortunate man fl of the cause of his assault npou his life, fl and the reason can only bo surmised. H Basing liis opinion on certain scents fl that came from tho wounded throat, fl ' the Dr. said to the olllcers it was pro- H, bably that he was recovering from n B protracted sproo and that while walk- fl ing from Milford to whero ho was H. found ho had concluded to destroy a H life which ho felt was a burden. As a the evidence was so clear that it was a B" .case of suicide, the attorney decided H that an Inquest was unnessary, and the body was interred In tho neighborhood H .of Modena. Deceased was about forty H years old, light complexion, with brown H hair and mustncho, weighed about 150 pounds, and stood about fivo feet seven fl or eight iuches high. Dr. Flood made H out a certified statnmout of the situa- B tlon In which ho found tho man,charac- teroftho wound, and tho treatment H he applied, vhich willbofllodln theof- H lice of the county clerk of this county. H i. ... n |